Emma Carstairs is excited about going to train with her best friend, Julian (Jules) while her parents are out on assignment. She practices with the sword her dad gave her. The doorbell rings and then they hear screaming. The tutorer, Katerina, and Jule’s half brother, Mark, go to see what is happening. Jules takes the twins to the office and sends Emma to get Drusilla (8) and Tavvy (2) and meet them. She gets them and starts leading them to the office when she sees Sebastian make Katerina drink from the Infernal Cup. Sebastian realizes that Mark is half fairy and doesn’t want him. Emma throws a star at him and the new Shadowhunters, now called Endarkened. She runs to the office where Jules is begging the Clave to keep the portal open a little longer. They leave it open just long enough for Jules and Emma to get through.

Jace is outside sitting in the grass with Jordan, learning how to meditate to control the heavenly fire that runs through his veins. Clary and Simon arrive and Jordan leaves them to go meet Maia. Jace and Clary join their friends and find Alec moping about Magnus. Jace breaks his phone so that he will stop calling his exboyfriend. Isabelle gets a text from Maryse instructing them to return for another meeting. The Clave has been interviewing them all about what happened at the Burren, trying to figure out Sebastian’s next move. The Silent Brothers have tried to harness the heavenly fire in Jace with no luck. Clary goes Christmas shopping with Simon. Jace goes to talk to Magnus about Alec. Clary decides to get Jace sheet music (suggested by Simon). She then takes Simon into Sephora to find something for Isabelle. They talk about how much things have changed and Clary suggests that Simon talk to Raphael about how to live as a vampire. Jocelyn comes in, relieved that Clary is alright, and says they have to go to the Institute right away. Jace tries to talk to Magnus, trying to get him to forgive Alec. Magnus deflects questions about himself and Jace points it out. Isabelle calls and tells Jace to come home immediately. Magnus asks if Alec is okay, but Jace refuses to answer. In the Institute library, everyone is reunited. Maryse explains that Sebastian has been attacking Institutes to gather soldiers. The Clave is calling for evacuation of all Institutes to Idris, where the wards will be doubled, no one in, no one out.

Emma wakes up. Helen (Aline’s girlfriend) tells her what happened. Emma asks about her parents and Helen explains that they found their bodies that morning. Emma screams until Julian brings her Cortana, the Carstairs sword. She knows she has to be strong. Shadowhunters gather from all over New York to go through a portal to Idris. Simon is on the Institute grounds to say goodbye to Clary. They talk about his relationship with Isabelle, who approaches him after Clary says everything she needs to. Magnus shows up to see Alec. They both realize that they are to blame for the end of their relationship and that i can’t go on. Magnus tells him that he needs him to live through what is coming. Simon and Isabelle share a moment. She gives him her ruby necklace (detects demons) as a loan until they see each other again. She tells him not to date anyone else while she is gone and joins Alec in going through the portal. Simon watches everyone go through, including Clary, who goes last.

Clary, Jocelyn, and Luke stay at Amatis’ house in Alicante. Clary tires to get some sleep, but is unable. She goes downstairs and ends up eavesdropping on her mom and Luke’s conversation. Somehow, the box of her brother’s baby things made it into the house from Valentine’s apartment. They will have to tell the Clave. The Shadowhunters all cram into a hall for the Council meeting. Jia Penhallow (Aline’s mother) leads the discussion as the new Consul. The Blackthorn children are trotted out onto stage. the new Inquisitor, Robert Lightwood, gives Julian the mortal sword and starts asking him questions. Emma runs up to defend Julian, as she can tell that the Moral Sword causes pain. She grabs it, tells her story, and runs away. Clary gets up and runs after her. She finds Emma and talks with her for a while, helping to calm her down. Jace comes to get Clary and Emma realizes who they both are. Clary tells Emma she can come to talk to them anytime.

Clary goes to the house reserved for the Inquisitor. Robert answers the door and sends her to the top floor where his children are. When Clary joins them, they are speculating what Sebastian’s next move will be. They fill Clary in on what she missed during the meeting (talking about Jace being their only source of heavenly fire and how to cure the Endarkened). Isabelle thinks they should focus on killing Sebastian. Alec upsets her with a comment about their parents splitting up because of Max’s death. He goes after her and Jace wants to walk Clary home. simon, Maia, and Jordan are sitting around talking about Simon’s life and relationship with Isabelle. There is a knock on the door and the Daylighter goes to answer it, expecting it to be their take-out food. There is an Endarkened at the door. Jordan and Maia start fighting him off and send Simon away. He makes it down the fire escape before he is confronted by Lily and Zeke, two of Maureen’s vampires. Jace starts to walk Clary home. She tells him that Emma reminds her of him and knows the little girl will have to learn the same things Jace did growing up. He pulls her into an alley and they start kissing. he pulls away and shows her that his hands left scorch marks on the wall. Sebastian and the Seelie Queen lie in bed together. Meliorn (who has a seat on the Council) tells them that everyone is being evacuated to Idris, but a few Institutes still have Shadowhunters left. It is decided that Sebastian will take London since he can’t have Jace and Clary yet. Jace feels like he still doesn’t have control. Clary points out his progress. She decides to take Emma’s advice and asks him to take her shopping for a real sword.

The pack came to help clean up the dead Endarkened while Joran went to look for Simon. The next morning, Jordan and Maia meet up. she has something to tell him, but decides it can wait until after they find their friend. The Praetor calls and tells him to come to headquarters. Maia agrees to go with him. Simon wakes up in a cage in the Hotel Dumort, dressed like he is on the cover of a romance novel. Maureen comes into the room to tell him that they are finally together. She plans to let him out when he falls in love with her. Simon knows her becoming this monster was his fault. Jordan and Maia arrive at the Praetor headquarters to find it has been burned to the ground; the guards all dead. Jordan finds Praetor Scott’s body. Maia joins him. Sebastian appears and stabs Jordan with his sword. He tells Maia that he will kill all Downworlders that alley themselves wit the Shadowhunters. He tells her that Jordan is dead before he leaves her to spread his message. Magnus sits in the Hunter’s Moon with Catarina, another warlock. She points out that she has never seen him happily in a relationship until Alec. She points out how Tessa proved it was worth the inevitable end. She offers her Council seat to Magnus to go to Idris and shows him Meloirn’s dinner invitation to the Council Downworlders. Bat gets a call and Magnus knows something is wrong. Beat tells him what happened to the Praetor Lupus.

Emma and Julian try to feed the baby, Tavvy. Helen comes up to their apartment-like attic on the London Institute was unsuccessful. Emma and Julian are jealous that their LA Institute hand’t survived. Emma says she wants to watch them kill Sebastian in Angel Square. Helen is horrified, but Julian seems to agree. Jace and Clary go into Diana’s weapon shop. She offers Clary the shorter partner sword to Sebastian’s. She doesn’t want it at first, but Diana points out that fear of the Morganstern name give Sebastian power over her. Diana informs them of the attack on the London Institute and Clary runs out. Jace follows and explains the meaning of Morganstern to her. Raphael comes to Simon with an offer. He wants Simon to go to Alicante with him to tell the Inquisitor about Maureen’s killing spree. The other vampires like the freedom, but Raphael worries about exposure and long term consequences. Without much of a choice, Simon agrees to go. Jace takes Clary to bless her first weapon in the fountain (a Shadowhunter tradition). When they are through, they start talking and Jace admits that he thinks what is happening is his fault for helping Sebastian when they were bound. He thinks he will fall to evil eventually. The demon towers turn to red and gold, signaling that everyone should get to the Gard. Jace is furious when he finds out they are only letting people through to the attack on the Adamant Citadel that have loved ones who have been turned. The Clave want the Endarkened brought back alive to find a cure. Jace tries to tell his adoptive father, Robert, that Sebastian is expecting the Clave’s reaction and only took 20 of his own warriors for a reason. Jace tells Clary that he is going through the portal, and he already knows that she is going with him.

Jace and Clary arrive at the Adamant Citadel and the portal closes behind them. More Endarkened appear. One Shadowhunter tries to talk to her turned brother, but he cuts off her head. More Endarkened appear. jace realizes it is a trap and sends Clary to make a portal to get them out of there. Jace starts fighting. The Endarkened avoid Clary as she makes her way to a wall. She pulls out her stele, but Amatis finds her and tells her to put it away. Amatis starts leading Clary to Sebastian, but gets distracted by Jace cutting down so many Endarkened warriors so quickly. Clary has the opportunity to fight back and is able to get AMatis to the ground and her sword to her throat. Isabelle and Alec race to the Gard when the demon towers signal that they are needed. Robert stops Isabelle from going through. She starts yelling at him. Alec comes along and tries to calm her down, and then Maryse. Isabelle admits that she knows about her father’s affair and that he only stayed around because of Maryse got pregnant with Max. Alec turns and walks away and Isabelle storms off. Jace fights off the Endarkened until Sebastian arrives to challenge him. Sebastian tells Jace that he has Clary, and indicates what he is going to do to her. Jace makes a mistake out of anger and ends up on the ground. Sebastian stabs him in the arm and is burned by heavenly fire. The Iron Sisters surround them and they tell Sebastian to leave. He uses his sword to create a rift in the ground and jumps into it. Alec tries to convince Consul Jia to send help to the Citadel. He suddenly feels Jace’s pain and tells her to open a portal quickly. Clary is thrown off Amatis when Sebastian opens up the earth. Luke’s sister jumps into the rift and Clary races for Jace. He is surrounded by Iron Sisters. Brother Zachariah puts a rune on his hand and presses it to Jace’s wound. Zachariah is engulfed in flames and Jace is left spasming. Clary holds Jace down and puts all of her energy into a healing rune. A portal opens just before she passes out.

Simon and Raphael arrive in Alicante and realize everyone is at the Gard because of the red demon towers. Raphael suggests they go to the house reserved for the vampire Council member when they see Isabelle. She is excited to see Simon and they decide to go inside. Magnus visits Jocelyn and Luke. He determines that Sebastian didn’t do anything to the box he left at Amatis’ house. He also tells them the message Maia gave him from Sebastian. He plans to tell the Downworlders at Meliorn’s dinner. Helen shows up at the door with a message about Clary. Back at the Station, Bat wakes Maia up. He tells her Simon is in Idris. The surviving Praetor, Rufus, is trying to convince the pack to sever their ties with Luke and the Shadowhunters. Maia and Bat know that Sebastian will come after them when he is through with the Nephilim, but other pack members are being swayed. Isabelle goes through Alec’s clothes to get Simon out of Maureen’s costume. They start getting intimate when Alec finds them. Simon changes while Alec fills Isabelle in. Simon is surprised to find out Isabelle was worried about Jace and Clary and didn’t tell him. Alec explains that something is wrong with Jace. Another jolt of pain sends him to his knees; Jace is back in Idris. Alec and Isabelle leave Simon outside of the Basilias (hospital) while they go to see Jace. Raphael comes along and takes Simon to where Jocelyn, Luke, and Magnus are watching over an unconscious Clary. Magnus is healing her while Luke explains to Simon that Jordan is dead. Alec sees Magnus and goes back inside to avoid him.

Clary wakes up and Jocelyn and Luke fill her in on everything that has been going on. Simon appears and also explains his story. Clary realizes that he needs blood and gets ready to take him to the vampire Council’s house. Luke warns Clary that there will be a guard at the house to make sure she is in (and stays in) after dark. Maia attends the funeral for the fallen werewolves. Bat comes up to express his sympathies for Jordan. Maia admits that she was about to break up with him. She feels guilty that he died with her lying to him. Bat explains that it is probably better that he died feeling loved and forgiven. Jace wakes up and decides that he doesn’t need to stay in the infirmary. He asks about Brother Zachariah and refuses to leave without seeing him. Brother Enoch takes Jace to see him and Jace is surprised to see a boy about his age. The heavenly fire burned away his curse and turned him back into a regular Shadowhunter (Jem). He explains that love is what makes Shadowhunters worthy of protecting humans. He plans to go to Tessa, but he has to learn how to be human again first. Simon and Clary make it to the vampire Council’s house. Raphael gives him blood and makes a few comments that makes simon realize that Raphael is jealous of him. The blood turned out to be drugged and Simon becomes drunk, yelling for Isabelle. Clary tires to drag him home, but is unsuccessful until Robert comes out to yell at him. He agrees to talk to Simon at the Council meeting. Clary drags him home, but they don’t make it before dark. She figures that the guard has already gone to tattle on her. She has Simon lie down on the couch before going up to her room. Sebastian is there waiting for her.

Clary can’t move her legs because Sebastian put a binding spell on her legs. He once again explains how they are alike. He gives her another chance to join him. At dinner, the Downworlders and Jocelyn discuss their alliance with Shadowhunters. Magnus is distracted and keeps thinking of Alec. By the time he realizes he is drunker than he should be, it is too late. He opens the door to see Endarkened on the other side before he passes out. Sebastian tires to convince Clary to willingly go with him. She refuses. He gets uncomfortably close and promises that Clary will join him. Jace shows up, mocking Sebastian’s loneliness. He attacks, but when Jace stabs him, Sebastian realizes that Jace doesn’t have control over the heavenly fire. He stabs Jace’s sword through himself before using his ring to disappear. Another werewolf comes along to give Maia clean clothes and warns her to keep quiet about her loyalty to Luke. Maia storms off and tells Rufus that Sebastian will kill them all after he is done with the Shadowhunters. He hits Maia in the shoulder. Bat tells Rufus to leave the pack. Rufus challenges him and Bat accepts. Bat tells Maia to stay away from the pack until everything is settled. Jace and Clary are at the Gard. She tells him what happened before the battle at the Burren. Jace is furious and promises to do everything he can to protect her and make things emotionally easier for her. Clary explains that being with Jace is a small victory over Sebastian. He falls asleep while Clary waits for Luke and her mom.

Jia wakes up Jace and Clary for the meeting and Simon joins them. They find the Lightwoods in the crowd and go to them. In front of the empty Downworlder’s chairs is a message written in angel blood from Sebastian. The Nephilim start discussing what happened and what they should do. One of the Endarkened, Matthias, comes up behind Jia and puts a sword to her throat. He tells them that Sebastian has the council members and will kill them if they don’t give Sebastian his sister and adopted brother. The Shadowhunters start refusing, but Jace offers himself willingly if Sebastian leaves Clary alone. Matthias says both must go. Robert asks for time to decided. Matthias raises his blade and Alec shoots it out of his hand. The dais catches on fire with Matthias in the middle. he gives them two days and disappears. Maia uses the keys Bat gave her to drive Jordan’s truck to his and Simon’s apartment. There is a knock on the door and Maia grabs a weapon before opening it. A vampire named Lily is at the door. She refuses to talk to Maia about vampire-werewolf politics until she is the pack leader. Alec puts an healing rune on Jace for the most efficient healing (parabatai runes are stronger). Jace tells Alec that he will give himself up for Magnus, but won’t risk Clary’s life. Jace recounts when he asked Alec to be his parabatai. Alec tells him not to talk like he is going to die. Jace and Alec join the discussion about whether or not the Clave will meet Sebastian’s demands. Simon is able to give some insight about how the Downworlder’s will react. Jace offers himself again. Brother Enoch and Zachariah join them and Zachariah points out that they will have to hand over Jace in a way that will not be expected to keep any kind of advantage. He also points out that Clary and Jace shouldn’t go to the funeral for the fallen Shadowhunters, but meet up with everyone for the next Council meeting.

Zachariah approaches Jia at her request. She tells him that he has served the Clave long enough and can leave Idris. he explains that he is not ready to see Tessa because he will tell her what is going on and she will want to fight. He would rather stay and fight himself than risk her life. Clary sits while Isabelle braids her hair. She tries to keep it together. Isabelle sees a face at the window and they take the person down. It is Emma. Bat starts to fight Rufus for the temporary leadership of the pack. Just as Rufus is about to land the killing blow, Maia issues her own challenge. Rufus accepts. Maia is able to get the advantage by throwing dirt in his eyes. She thinks about Sebastian and it gives her the strength to kill him. She saved Bat and is the new temporary pack leader. jace, Simon, and Alec are talking when Isabelle and Clary bring Emma into the room. She doesn’t trust the Clave, but she seems to trust them because they help people. She tells them that Jia and the higher ranked Clave members have decided that they must give up Jace and Clary to Sebastian. She also tells them that the Endarkened spoke of Edom as if it were a real place rather than an idea of hell. Alec looks it up and thinks it may be Lilith’s demon realm.

Jace tries to convince his family and friends to let him go alone, but in the end, they convince him that he needs them. Clary makes a portal that takes them just outside of the Fairy Queen’s court. They listen in as the queen talks to Gwyn, the leader of the Wild Hunt. She wants a favor from him because she and Sebastian gave him Mark Blackthorn. Meloirn comes along to speak to the queen alone, but notices the group outside the doorway. They rush in, ready for battle. The queen admits that Meloirn is only half faery and can lie. Alec kills him and Clary seals the entrance with a rune to prevent other faeries from coming. Jace demands safe passage to and from Edom. The queen leads them down a path that forks out into three directions. Alec tells them they each lead to a different place; Heaven (which happens to actually be the mundane world), Faerie, and Hell. Jace has the queen swear that she and her people will not alert Sebastian that they were there. He promises that the fey will bleed for their part in the war. Along the path, they find Mark Blackthorn. He was beaten until he ate the faery food and can now only be released by the Wild Hunt. Clary tells him that his family is alive. Jace instructs him to get a message to the Clave about the fey’s betrayal and sends him off with his witchlight. THey continue to the end of the tunnel and come to a vortex of darkness. THey hold hands to go through together. The queen finds a loophole to inform Sebastian that the small group has left Faerie.

Clary meets her normal looking brother (who has green eyes). She remembers her father, Valentine, being a hero who died in the Mortal War. Luke and Jocelyn named their daughter, Valentina, after his fallen parabatai. Jonathan teases his younger half sister about eating the flowers off of the wedding cake. Clary starts to realize that she is about to marry Jace and wonders where Simon is. Jonathan doesn’t seem to know him. Simon is in a dream-like world where he is a rockstar and dating Clary. When he says he loves her, he calls her Isabelle. Simon throws Isabelle a surprise 22nd birthday part. She is surprised when Max (who would’ve been 15) is still only 9 years old. Alec has defeated Sebastian and his forces and prepares to marry Magnus. As his proud father is about to give a speech, Magnus tells him it is an illusion from entering the demon realm. Alec wakes up and shoots one of his arrows at an approaching demon. Everyone snaps out of it and meets up to find that Jace is missing. Clary runs off to find him and the others follow. Clary finds him on the ground and shakes him, telling him whatever he saw isn’t real. Jace says that he didn’t see anything. He uses the bracelet and a tracking rune to find Sebastian. They realize they can’t leave the way they came and Jace presses them to start moving.

Raphael tries to free Magnus’ hands from the chains restraining him in the cell they share with Luke in Edom. Luke worries about Jocelyn, but Magnus points out that she is leverage over Clary. As Jace, Clary, Alec, Isabelle, and Simon continue on their quest, the Shadowhunters realize that their runes fade faster in this realm. A flying demon attacks Jace and lifts him into the air. Alec and Isabelle do what they can from the ground until the demon is dead (but doesn’t disappear because it is already in its home dimension). Simon points out caves in the distance and Alec agrees they should use them as shelter to rest. The cave they choose has a gate with runes carved into it and the walls. jace opens the gate. he and Clary decide to search on tunnel and Simon and Isabelle the other. Alec is left behind to make a fire. As Bat is showing Maia how to be the new pack leader, Catarina brings Malcolm Fade (High Warlock of Los Angeles) to see her. Maia is informed about the kidnapped council members and Sebastian’s terms. Maia decides it is time to make an alliance with the New York vampires. At the end of Jace and Clary’s corridor, they find a cavern with a lake (which has runes at the bottom). Clary expresses her frustration and Jace gives her some encouragement. Simon reassures Isabelle that he is not in love with Clary and only has eyes for her. She kisses him, but stops when she hears something. Isabelle races to the end of the tunnel. Simon follows and can see a city in the distance. Jocelyn is in her own cell when Sebastian comes to discuss “what ifs” with her. He uses his own stele to communicate with Jia, who tells him they will not give him Jace and Clary. He tells her they have already left Idris.

Emma and Julian have been taking care of the younger kids. They wonder what will happen to Emma since she doesn’t have any family. Julian suggests that they become parabatai so they can stay together. They overhear the Penhallows talking about how Jace and Clary are gone. They hear a window break and find an acorn with a message from Mark to the Consul. Magnus worries about Raphael not being able to fee. He and Luke discuss love. Magnus admits that he’s tried to stay away from falling in love with Shadowhunters, but somehow did with Alec. Maia takes 15 pack wolves to meet with Maureen at Toys R Us. The young vampire wants to make an alliance with the wolves to join Sebastian. Maia agrees and offers Maureen her blood to seal the deal. When she drinks from Maia’s wrist, she turns to ash. Lily explains that it was her plan to have Maia inject herself with holy water. Lily and Maia start an alliance to help the Shadowhunters defeat Sebastian. Jace and clary return to the camp. Alec has set up for them. Alec expresses his confusion about not agreeing with the Clave and gets made at Jace for making fun of him. Simon and Isabelle return and tell them what they found. Alec decides to keep watch and Jace offers to join him. Clary falls asleep. Alec explains his feelings to Jace and the dream he saw when they entered the demon realm. Jace sees something and runs out to find Magdalena. She tells him that he is just like Jonathan/Sebastian and wants to rule over a wasteland. She guesses that was his vision when he entered Edom. He swings his seraph blade and releases heavenly fire to kill the demon impersonating the former Iron Sister he killed.

Alec comes running to get Clary. He leads her to Jace and points out that he is in the fire. She draws a rune on her wrist to make herself fireproof and goes to him. He tells her to get out so he can wait for the fire to kill him. he kisses him and tells him to trust her. She remembers the first rune she ever saw in her head and realizes it is a sword hilt (previously thought to be wings). Alec, Isabelle, and Simon are relieved when the fire dies out and their friends emerge unharmed. Jace explains that he lost control, but now knows how to control the fire. Julian and emma give Mark’s note explaining the faeries’ betrayal. When Jia leaves the room, Emma grabs a file labeled “Carstairs: deceased” and hides it under Julian’s shirt. when Jia returns, she asks them to testify about the note. Raphael and Luke watch Jace’s fire until it dies out. Magnus admits that the realm they are in is one of his father’s. The warlock falls asleep and Raphael tells Luke that they don’t want his father’s help. The New York werewolves and vampires work together to contact as many Downworlder leaders as they can. Malcolm comes along to tell them that Catarina requested them at he morgue with a cage. Sebastian takes Jocelyn to a throne room that looks like the meeting hall at the Gard. He shows two windows; one into Edom and the other into Alicante. Jocelyn realizes that the second throne is for Clary. She dives for Sebastian’s knife, but fails. They see Jace’s heavenly fire flare up.

Clary talks with Simon as the group continues on. Jace starts running and the others follow until the reach a cliff. At the bottom of the chasm is Alicante in ruins. Zachariah sits in a room with the council members to discuss the faeries betrayal. Tessa sent a note from the Spiral Labyrinth to tell them there is no cure for the Endarkened; their souls are completely gone and their organs are fried. Zachariah has a plan to use the fey’s betrayal. As they arrive at what should be the Hall of Accords, Alec reads the Shadowhunter’s story of Edom. An angel came out of a lake to create Shadowhunters. However, they depended on the skeptron to defeat the demons, but ended up failing. Inside the tomb, there is a statue of Jonathan Shadowhunter holding the actual skeptron. Simon points out that it is a trap, but Jace climbs up to get the weapon anyway. The red gem (same stone as the one in Isabelle’s necklace) pulses. There are screams and demons start to fly in and attack. Isabelle is bitten in the scuffle. Alec tires healing runes, but they don’t work. Clary creates a portal that takes them back to the cave. She tries her own healing run, but again it is not strong enough. Simon bites open his wrist and lets the blood fall on Isabelle’s wound. Miraculously, it heals.

Sebastian has food sent to his prisoners before visiting them. He tries to convince them to come to his side. Raphael agrees, but is unable to seal the agreement by killing Magnus. Sebastian stabs Raphael in the heart. Catarina shows Maia, Bat and Lily a demon that is at the hospital where she works. They are unable to kill it without a ruined weapon, but capture it. Lily took video to share with other Downworlders why they need Shadowhunters. The demon tells them Sebastian is attacking Alicante the next night. Clary realizes that Simon hasn’t been eating. She points this out to the others and they all start arguing over who he will drink from. Alec takes him a little way down the tunnel and offers his wrist. They talk awkwardly about their relationships and Alec admits that Simon makes Isabelle happy. Simon bites him and can taste Alec’s death wish, just like he could taste Jace’s when he drank his blood on the boat.

Simon and Alec rejoin the others. A few jokes are made and Alec decides to go take watch. He tells Simon to watch over Isabelle. Jace runs to catch up with Alec to apologize for being reckless again and not considering Alec’s feelings. Alec forgives him and continues on. Jace wakes up Clary in the night to bathe in the lake. They are both excited that they can touch each other without worry, but know they have to keep the secret of the heavenly fire being in Clary’s sword from the others. They discuss how much they love each other and then have sex. Isabelle wakes up. She and Simon say they love each other. They start making out and Alec walks in to find them again. Jia receives a note from Maia warning her that Sebastian will attack the next night. She thinks of the boxes Tessa sent from the Labyrinth.

Jace and Alec return from recon and Jace starts explaining his plan. However, it isn’t very clear by his drawing in the sand. Simon suggests they acquire red gear from a few Endarkened to get through. Jace likes the idea and asks Clary if she can use the same rune she used earlier. Emma goes through the file she stole from Jia’s office and tries to figure out who killed her parents (since the evidence points to someone other than the Endarkened). Helen and Ty come in and Ty points out that the warlocks sent things (iron, salt, graveyard dirt) to fend off Faeries. As planned, Jace, Clary, Simon, Alec, and Isabelle are able to kill five Endarkened and take their red gear to fit in. They make their way to Sebastian’s headquarters at the Gard where he is waiting for them with a room full of demons. Clary creates a small portal that Jace jumps through to get the skeptor and returns the same way. He uses it to kill all of Sebastian’s demons with a bright light. Sebastian runs off. jace and Clary go one way and Alec, Isabelle and Simon go another to find Luke and the others. The Endarkened enter the room and start after them. Jia announces that Sebastian will attack that night and tells the Shadowhunters to prepare themselves.

Emma wakes up to sirens and starts putting on gear to fight. Julian comes in to tell her they have to get the younger kids to the Accords Hall. Emma wants to fight, but Julian convinces her that the children need them more. Jace and Clary find Sebastian drawing runes around himself in the large council room where the two windows reside. Sebastian sends Amatis to get Jocelyn. Jace is able to kill a demon before Sebastian sends him flying. Clary realizes that Sebastian wants to rule hell. She tells him he can have it if he leaves their world alone. He explains that the second throne is for her. Helen leads the Blackthorn children and Emma to the Accords Hall. A faery comes after them, but Shadowhunters have prepared and they are able to use iron items to kill it. Three Endarkened appear and Zachariah arrives to take them out. Luke tells Magnus what he can see from the window. There is a sound at the door and Magnus finally sees Alec. Zachariah gets Helen and the children to safety. He tells Emma that she is needed there to help Julian protect the others and to stay with her parabatai. Sebastian shows Clary what is happening in Alicante through the window. He tells her that if she agrees to stay with him and rule, he will leave her world and close the last gate from Edom to Earth. Alec uses a seraph blade to free Magnus. He sends Luke, Isabelle, and Simon ahead to find Jocelyn and they plan to meet at the keep where they came in. Julian points out the Wild Hunt going across the sky. They can hear what is going on outside and realize that they are all going to die. Luke, Simon and Isabelle find and free Jocelyn. THey start moving to go find Clary. Sebastian explains that he will seal the world and the Endarkened will grow weak without him. The Shadowhunters will have the ability to win. He also promises that her family and friends can stay with her and live. She takes her spot on the throne.

The fight reaches into the Accords Hall. Julian and Emma do their best to protect the others. Emma kills a faery. Ty starts approaching his Endarkened father. Julian throws a blade that lands in his dad’s chest and kills him. Amatis arrives to tell Sebastian that Jocelyn isn’t in her cell. Sebastian isn’t worried as the borders are already closing. Magnus point out that the walls are literally closing in, and that Sebastian would have the power to control all of Edom if he sealed the borders between dimensions. Simon and Isabelle are separated from the others. The building seems to be falling apart strategically to lead them to the keep where they find Jace and then Sebastian. The rest of their party comes into the room and Sebastian points out Clary on the throne. Simon tries to get to her, but a line of Endarkened stop him. Everyone stares at Clary in amazement as Sebastian explains the choice she had to make. Jace appears willing to give her up to him for the cause. Sebastian tells her to kiss him to signify their unity. She reaches up, kisses him on the cheek, and says, “Hail, master,” before stabbing him through the chest with her sword that she put the heavenly fire into. The evil (Sebastian) is burned away until only the dying, green-eyed Jonathan remains. Jocelyn goes to him. He tells Jace where the Infernal Cup is (in the demon he killed earlier) and to throw it at the circle of runes to destroy it. Jace does and the Endarkened collapse. There is a loud cry as the sky turns red. Sebastian explains it is Lilith weeping for the loss of her “children,” including him. The Endarkened on Earth start to fall and the faeries flee. The Shadowhunters rejoice, but Emma is trying to tell Julian to be brave. Jonathan apologizes for al that he has done, including trapping them all in Edom. He tells Clary about a dream he had once (exactly like her vision when she came to Edom). He feels lighter before he dies. Jace has already filled in the others about their secret plan. Clary informs them that they do not have a way home. They vote for Magnus to call on his father, Asmodeus, a Prince of Hell who fell from Heaven with Lucifer. He tells them that he wants an immortal life to send them back home. Magnus is willing to accept that he will die if his immortality is taken. Simon offers his immortality and Asmodeus agrees to take it and make him human in exchange for all of his memories of the shadow world (including all his memories of Clary). He agrees and Asmodeus takes him away. The Shadowhunters are returned to Alicante. Clary finally breaks down.

Emma and Jules are allowed to sit in the Council meeting. It is decided that the Seelie Court will take the punishment the Clave has assigned. They will disband their armies and not carry weapons. Magnus tries to point out that the harshness will brew anger and resentment, but the Shadowhunters ignore it. Helen’s loyalty is called into question because she is part faery. It is decided that she will be sent to work on the wards indefinitely and the search for Mark will be abandoned. the Clave agreed to burn Jonathan’s body to make certain that he wouldn’t come back. Jace goes with Clary to throw the Ashes into Lake Lyn. She mourns for all that she and her loved ones have lost. Jia and Luke discuss what is next. They will use the Mortal Cup and reopen the academy. Maia will take over his pack and his Council seat. Jia tells him that Emma will stay in Idris. Emma, who has been listening in, goes crashing into the room. Julian follows and is furious when he finds out that Emma is supposed to go to the new Shadowhunter Academy. They announce that they will become parabatai so they can’t be separated, though Emma seems hesitant. On the way back to Alicante, Jace stops at the Herondale Manor. He tells Clary that he wants to carry on the family name to honor the generations of Herondales that did good. He doesn’t want the legacy to end with him. Alec is on the roof of the Inquisitor’s house when Magnus approaches him. He wants to be with Alec and hands him a notebook - the first installment of his past. He wants Alec to know him completely. Alec accepts the notebook and makes his decision to be with Magnus. Jace takes Clary home and she goes to her room to find Isabelle waiting for her. Clary recounts the phone call she made to Simon and confirms that he has forgotten them. Isabelle and Clary mourn him together. Maia decided to live in Jordan and Simon’s apartment. Jia sends her the Praetor Lupus seal with indication that she should start the group back up. Julian worries about suddenly having to raise his siblings. Emma tries to comfort him. She tries to tell him why she agreed to be his parabatai, but he falls asleep. Isabelle and Magnus go with Clary while she goes to talk to Simon. He doesn’t remember her, but hands her a flyer before she returns to her friends. She gives Isabelle the flyer before leaving. Isabelle notices the name of Simon’s band: the Mortal Instruments. Magnus promises Isabelle that they will try, but Simon has to want it. Magnus approaches Simon and has Isabelle join him. Simon is confused by Magnus telling him about magic and how he, an ordinary boy, was once a great warrior. Magnus offers him a chance to ascend, to become a Shadowhunter. Jace and Clary are expressing their love for each other when Magnus shows up and says he has something important to show them. Robert approaches Alec. he tells him about his parabatai, Michael Wayland, telling him that he loved him. Robert reacted badly and took in Jace to try to make up for it. He tells his son he is proud of him and that he is a good man. Clary follows Magnus back to the wedding and sees Simon. Magnus warns her that he doesn’t remember everything. She runs up and hugs him. He remembers her now. Magnus and Alec have worked through their issues and decide to spend whatever time they are allotted together. Jocelyn approaches Jace to ask him to play the piano. She has grown fond of him over the past few months. Tessa and Jem watch the descendants of their friends from their previous time together. Jocelyn takes Clary to meet Tessa. Simon asks Isabelle to dance. He dreamed about her at night, knowing that something was missing. He wants to earn her love again. Jocelyn explains that Tessa and Jem performed the protection ceremony on her when she was a baby. Tessa gives Clary a Herondale ring (her son’s) to give to Jace and her copy of the Shadowhunter’s Codex. Tessa gives her some advice about love before she and Jem leave for LA to watch over Emma. Isabelle saw Jem take Church with them. Magnus expresses his fear of impending doom from faery retaliation. Alec comes along to invite him to the lake with their friends. Clary gives Jace the Herondale ring and shows him the Codex.

Simon goes home to find that the glamour he put on his mom has faded. there are religious marks on the door and when he knocks on it, she tells him to go away. Clary calls him to tell him Jace and Sebastian are missing.

After two weeks of testimonies and holding the Mortal Sword, Clary waits for her verdict from the Clave in Isabelle’s room. Alec comes in to tell her that the Clave has deiced that she hasn’t broken any laws, but they are deprioritizing the search for Sebastian and Jace. Some wards have been smashed and need to be replaced. The council must continue reorganization while they waif to Sebastian to make the next move. Clary decides that she wants to talk to the Seelie Queen. Isabelle and Alec agree to go with her and they join the other Shadowhunters in the lobby. Clary tells Luke that she’s going out with her friends while Alec tells Magnus what they plan to do. Clary joins Isabelle by Aline and her girlfriend, Helen. Aline shares a story about Jace explaining why she knows Jace will find his way back to them.

Simon is outside waiting for Clary. When she comes out with Alec and Isabelle, she explains their plan. She walks with her best friend while the pair of siblings follow, talking about their dad putting his name in for the Inquisitor position. When they are far enough away from the Institute, the four of them hold hands and Clary rings the bell. they are transported to the Seelie Court. Merlion takes them to the queen, who is not impressed with their attitudes. She puts a glamour on Alec to make him appear old until Clary apologizes. Clary then asks for the queen’s help in finding Jace. She agrees if they bring her a set of fairy rings that are held in the Institute. Alec and Isabelle both agree that the theft is worth the risk to find Jace. They all leave and Alec goes to Magnus’ apartment. As Magnus tries to decipher the ritual Lilith used, Alec tries to control his jealousy over his boyfriend’s past. He goes to bed, but Magnus is still concentrating. Clary and Simon sneak into her room as he has been staying with her to help her sleep. Clary worries about her mom blaming herself for Sebastian. Simon knows Clary is doing the same thing by blaming herself for leaving Jace alone. Simon asks if she is really going to steal the rings. She plans to take them during the Conclave meeting the next day.

When Simon finally goes back to the apartment, Jordan and Maia are waiting for him. they know what happened with his mom and are worried about him. His sister has been calling and he promises that he will text her later before leaving again. Clary sneaks into the institute library. As she is about to take the rings, Sebastian and Jace show up. They act like life-long best friends and take books on demon summoning. Clary stays hidden and watches. When they have what they need, Sebastian uses a ring to teleport them out. Magnus wakes up Alec to remind him that he needs to meet the others at Turtle Pond. Alec gets upset at Magnus for not being forthcoming about his past and storms out. A hooded figure approaches Alec saying he has a message for him from Camille. Jordan asks Maia to join him in his search for Jace. She accepts, knowing she needs to figure out her feelings for him. She leaves with Simon to go to the subway. Simon and Isabelle are the first to arrive. She gets annoyed with his phone buzzing and pulls it out of his pocket. He tells her about his sister, Rebecca, and she tells him to tell her the truth. Siblings are more understanding than parents. Alec shows up and shortly after, Clary portals there.

Clary explains what she saw in the library to her friends. THey realize they have new questions, but the Seelie Queen will only answer what was originally asked. Clary didn’t get the rings anyway, so they decide not to go. They all go to Magnus’ apartment. Alec promises to talk to him that night, but has something to do himself that afternoon. Alec finds Camille in the unused town hall subway station from a letter one of her subjugates gave him. He asks her how he can become immortal as she promised when he freed her. She refuses and they fight. She finds pleasure in it and explains that there isn’t a way to make him immortal that he would agree to. However, Magnus’ immortality can be taken away. Clary starts to think of a new rune on her way home and rushes to her room to draw it. Jocelyn interrupts her and Clary asks if the protection ceremony was done to her when she was an infant. Her mom confirms that it was done by a Silent Brother and a female warlock (replacing an Iron Sister). Clary completes the rune, but doesn’t understand how it will help her. Jordan and Maia search the abandoned Navy Yard. They don’t find anything, but start talking to each other. He asks her what she wants to do for a living and offers her his savings to send her to college. He kisses her and tells her he loves her before she tells him she can’t be with him right now and leaves.

Clary wakes up from a dream to find Jace in her bed with her. He tries to explain what is going on. He wants to take Clary with him now that she didn’t tell the Clave she saw him. Sebastian interrupts them and Clary is furious that he is there. Jace convinces him to give him some alone time with Clary to explain. Jocelyn finds her son and freaks out. She pulls a knife and tries to stab him, but only cuts him. Jace starts bleeding in the same spot. Annoyed with Jocelyn calling him Jonathan, Sebastian explains his new name limits his association to his biological parents. Luke comes out with a shotgun, but as he fires, Jace tackles him to save Sebastian and himself. Luke punches him and Sebastian stabs the werewolf in the chest with a silver dagger. They disappear into thin air. Jocelyn calls the pack and tells Clary to pack a bag. They have to leave because Jace will keep coming for her.

After making sure Luke is wit his pack and stable, Jocelyn takes Clary to Magnus’. Jocelyn explains that the knife Sebastian used had something on the tip that keeps burrowing into Luke to keep him from healing. Magnus suggests the Praetor Lupus being able to help and calls Jordan. Clary tries to get her mom to agree not to kill Jace, but Jocelyn can’t. Brother Zachariah arrives, promising to keep the secret from the Clave. He explains that the two are bound and Jace is heavily influenced by Sebastian’s will. It is decided that Jocelyn will go with Isabelle to the Iron Sisters to see about a weapon that will hurt only one of the boys. Clary gets mad at Jocelyn for not letting her go. Jocelyn points out Clary and Jace’s bad luck streak as a couple, saying they are obviously not meant to be together. Clary storms off. Raphael comes to Simon asking him to be his bodyguard against Camille. Simon refuses and Raphael goes on a tirade about darkness taking over the Earth. Clary sends a text and draws a portal to get out of the apartment. Isabelle shows up at Jordan’s apartment looking for Simon. He gives her tequila while she explains that she really likes Simon and hasn’t felt that way about anyone before. He convinces her to tell him how she feels. She starts getting ready to go to Clary’s to do it before she looses her nerve, but passes out instead.

Clary meets Simon at Taki’s to tell him her latest plan. She has the fairy rings the queen wanted. She plans to go with Jace and Sebastian and use the rings to tell Simon where they are. Simon protests, but she points out that she is going to do it with or without his help. Maia shows up at Jordan’s to tell him about Luke needing the Praetor’s help. Isabelle comes along and tries to explain that she was waiting on Simon. Maia tells her to go to Magnus’ right away. Jordan agrees to take Maia to headquarters to request help. Isabelle arrives at Magnus’ and he tells her that they need her to go to the Iron Sisters with Jocelyn. He also wanted her there to comfort Alec. Clary goes to Luke’s house to wait for Jace. She and Simon test out the rings at a distance and can still talk. Simon goes home to find a note from Isabelle asking him to come to Magnus’. He leaves right away. Magnus directs Simon to the room Isabelle is staying in and he goes back to find her sleeping. He crawls into bed with her and she wakes up, surprised that he came. Jace eventually arrives for Clary. he tells her that if she goes with him, she won’t be able to come back for a long time. She agrees.

On the way to the Praetor headquarters, Jordan stops to watch the sun rise. Maia tells him she wants to go slow and just be friends before anything else. He explains that he loves her and cannot be just friends. She kisses him. Clary wakes up and starts exploring where she is. She finds Jace’s room and then Sebastian’s. As she backs out of her brother’s room, he finds her and asks what she was doing in there. Magnus and Alec take Isabelle and Jocelyn as far as they can before they go off on their own to confront the Iron Sisters. Jace arrives and Clary acts like nothing happened. They sit down at the table to eat and Sebastian explains that the moving apartment was Valentines. He decides to wait a week to tell Clary their plan. Isabelle and Jocelyn arrive in a plain and start walking. Isabelle asks Jocelyn about her parents’ relationship, but Jocelyn doesn’t think it is her place to tell. They arrive at the draw bridge to the Adamant Citadel. Isabelle cuts her hand to offer blood while starting their motto.

Alec sneaks off to meet with Camille. She tells him that she will do the spell to make Magnus mortal if Alec kills Raphael. Isabelle and Jocelyn cross the bridge with random knives and swords through it to explain the situation to two sisters, Chloephas and Debres. They cannot help and say they need a weapon of great power, such as the angel Michael’s sword. However, they don’t really have any way to summon an angel. Isabelle is furious and frustrated. She storms off. When Jocelyn gets to her, she tells Isabelle that the sisters think she would be great as one of them. Jordan and Maia arrive at the Praetor House and explain the situation to Praetor Scott (Woolsey’s descendant). He agrees to look at their books to help Luke and reminds Maia of the promise she made in her pack leader’s name to have the ear of a council member. Simon wakes up and joins the others. They are talking about summoning an angel, which they determine to be unrealistic. Magnus suggests they summon the demon Azazel for a weapon since his physical form can’t come into their world. Jocelyn wants to get Clary out of there before they summon any demons. Simon tells her Clary is gone.

Jordan takes Maia to his dorm-like room. his roommate is on assignment so he tells her to get some rest. He goes to shower and Maia joins him after the realization that more fighting and death is on the way. Simon explains Clary’s plan and Jocelyn is furious. Isabelle points out the mistakes Jocelyn has made with Clary and sticks up for Simon. Jocelyn leaves. Jace shows Clary around Venice. he asks her about the fairy ring and she tells him she got it from Isabelle. She also tells him that Magnus has the Morganstern ring to try to find him. He promises to show her the world. Maia and Jordan are wrapped up in each other when someone knocks on the door to tell him Praetor Scott wants to see him. Back at the warlock’s apartment, Simon, Magnus, Alec, and Isabelle get ready to summon Azazel. Praetor Scott gives Maia a salve for Luke that should draw out the demon metal. Raphael projects himself into the room to complain about Maureen running wild. Jordan’t roommate, Nick, is assigned to her and Raphael sin’t happy that she is making his clan look bad. Jace and Clary borrow a boat and lay in it. As they kiss, she tries to remember that it isn’t her Jace she is with. He shows her the Wild Hunt - Faeries that rid across the sky and once a year allow a mortal to join them. The man whose boat they stole stars yelling at them.

Magnus, Alec, Isabelle, and Simon summon Azazel. He agrees to tell them a way he can help, but they each have to give him a happy memory. they all agree and Magnus gives them to the prince of hell. He tells them that short of angel fire, they don’t have much hope of severing the bond between Jace and Sebastian. He tells them that if they set him free, he will take Sebastian to hell with him. After a while, the bond would be burned away. Magnus banishes the greater demon so they can discuss their options. Maia and Jordan arrive to tell them Luke will be fine. Jace and Clary arrive back at the house. Sebastian is there with two girls, one of which is a vampire. Jace declines his offer to join them and takes Clary to his room. He holds her and they sleep. Isabelle asks Simon to stay at Magnus’ with her. He agrees knowing he will need blood soon. Alec goes to see Camille and tells her that he cannot kill Raphael for her. He starts asking her fro relationship advice, knowing she was once involved with his boyfriend. Clary wakes up from a bad dream and quietly leaves Jace’s room. There is blood in the hallway and Sebastian comes out of his room. He assures her that the human girl is safe and they make their way to the kitchen. Sebastian tries to convince Clary that killing Max was an accident and the bond with Jace has changed him. She agrees to hear his plan before deciding what to think of him, but has trouble hiding her hatred for him.

Alec sneaks back into bed hoping that Magnus won’t realize he was gone. He doesn’t account for the cat being under the covers and wakes him up. Magnus knows he’s been out, but Alec refuses to say where. Simon and Isabelle lie together awkwardly until they start fooling around. Isabelle realizes that Simon needs to feed and offers her blood. After a while, he can’t resist and bites her. She enjoys it and they sleep comfortably. Clary wakes up and checks the hall, but the blood is gone. When Sebastian comes out of his room, Clary decides to change. She meets Sebastian and Jace in the kitchen. THey tell her they have an errand to run when Clary notices the house moved from Italy to Prague. Sebastian agrees to let her join him if she draws a strength rune on him. She does and finds scars Valentine cut into his back with demon metal. Maryse calls the Silent Brothers and Brother Zachariah arrives. She shows him a map that she uses along with Valentin’s rune on Jace to know where he is. Brother Zachariah agrees to not say anything yet, but warns her that if Jace stays anywhere long enough, she will have to inform the Clave. Clary sneaks away for a few minutes to exchange progress with Simon. She continues on with Sebastian and Jace to a store filled with junk and run by a dragon-like demon named Mirek. Sebastian offers Mirek their agreed upon price for a block of adamas (what is used to make seraph blades). The demon refuses because Sebastian didn’t come alone. He asks for a lock of Clary’s hair. Jace and Sebastian refuse. Sebastian continues to refuse to pay more than the agreed price and pulls out his seraph blade. The next thing Clary knows is the snake-like demon is over her. Simon and Isabelle wake up. They start getting close when Magnus knocks on the door to tell them he has news.

Elapid demons start appearing everywhere. Sebastian, Jace, and Clary fight them off. Sebastian yells for Clary to stop Mirek from running away with the adamas. She kills him-and grabs the rock. Sebastian takes it from her and Jace makes sure Clary is alright. The pentagram used to summon Azazel allows him to communicate with the group. Magnus brings him back to tell him they re going to decline his offer. Azazel decides that he doesn’t like that answer and will try to find his own way out of the pentagram. Chairman Meow (Magnus’ cat) runs into the pentagram and Simon dives in to save him. Azazel sees his opportunity and attacks. The mark of Cain drives him back. He leaves saying he doesn’t want any association with anyone that would use that mark. Jace and Clary give each other healing runes and get ready for the next step in Sebastian’s plan. They are going to a club. Simon talks to Magnus about summoning an angel. The warlock can’t guarantee that the mark will keep him safe, but agrees that Simon is their best option. Sebastian leads Jace and Clary to a lower level of a club where werewolves and vampires are dancing. He leaves the couple behind to go talk to someone. As everyone argues over whether or not Simon should attempt to summon Raziel, he and Isabelle talk. She isn’t happy it has to be Simon, but lets him make his own choice. Jace convinces Clary to try the silver Fairy liquid falling from the ceiling. She is instantly high and dances away from Jace and into Sebastian. He tries to explain their similarities to her, that they both have some darkness. Jace comes along and takes her back to the dance floor, but they are mostly just kissing. They move t a curtained alcove to be alone. Sebastian meets with Merlion to talk about ending the human race. The Seelie Queen sides with Sebastian. While making out with Jace, the silvery liquid seems to turn to blood. All of the clubs decorations seem to be corpses. Clary freaks out and then faints.

Clary wakes up in Jace’s room. He tells her the gory images she saw weren’t real before he falls asleep again. She realizes her ring is missing and goes to look for it. Sebastian is leaving the house and she decides to follow him. Luke wakes up and agrees to Jocelyn’s request to take it easy. With Clary gone, she needs him. They talk about their past and Clary’s willingness to die for what she believes in. Clary follows Sebastian to a building, but looses him and ends up in a courtyard. She keeps searching and overhears demons talking about killing Jace after Sebastian’s plans are successful. Clary runs, but they follow. She tires to fight them off with an ornamental axe, but is poisoned. Sebastian saves her and starts carrying her away.

Clary wakes up on a park bench wondering why Sebastian saved her. He points out that she is his only family. He knew she was following him and wanted to see what she would do. She asks about the demons. He points out that more and more are spilling into the world. He is trying to understand them and gain their trust to help Shadowhunters in the upcoming war. Clary can’t believe him, so he wants to prove that he has a plan. While everyone works hard researching how to summon Raziel, Simon gets a text from Maia updating him on Luke’s status. Since they will need a large space, he suggests Luke’s farm. Magnus agrees and suggests they get some sleep first. Sebastian tells Clary what he knows about their family and speculates what it would be like now if they had grown up together. He takes Clary with him to Magdalena, an outcasted Iron Sister who supported the Circle. He gives her the adamas. She promises to make what h asked for and they leave.

Sebastian takes Clary home and to the secret training room. Jace is there and upset that he didn’t know where Clary was. Sebastian explains that he took her to meet Magdalena. He wants her to use the adamas to make a second mortal cup. He explains that they will lure out the greater demons by telling them they want to mix blood to start a new Shadowhunter race. Clary is a bit overwhelmed by the information and says she needs to sleep. Jace goes with her. Simon meets his sister, Rebecca, in person. She thinks their mom has gone crazy and needs to be committed. Simon tells her the truth. Rebecca is quick to believe and trust him, saying they’ll figure it out. Jace and Clary start making out in his room, but she quickly puts a stop to it when Jace starts undressing her. She is a little spooked from the previous night with the fairy drugs. Jace storms off. Jordan is restless while Maia is off talking to Luke about what is going on. When she returns, they immediately start hooking up again. Jace comes back in his room to apologize to Clary. he tells her he is happy to be with her and will wait until she is ready. She asks him to read to her to help her sleep. He picks up the copy of A Tale of Two Cities that Will gave to Tessa.

Magnus, Alec, Isabelle, and Simon make their way to Luke’s farm in Jordan’s truck. Alec talks about the little things that make being gay difficult. Clary wakes up in her room to the sound of Jace and Sebastian talking about Jace retrieving the cup. Jace comes in and Clary instantly knows it is the real Jace. he goes to his own room and she sneaks after him. He explains that Sebastian sent him to retrieve the cup and kill Magdalena. He doesn’t think that Sebastian knows that the Iron Sister cut his mark of Lilith with a blade made with angel blood. He tells her that Sebastian really wants to start a race of dark Shadowhunters. He wants to move the house near an entrance of the Silent City so he can turn himself in and sacrifice himself to stop Sebastian.

Simon tires to contact Clary with no luck. Isabelle is worried, but Simon is oddly calm at first. Magnus calls him over and gives him what he needs to complete the spell. he says his last words to his friends before he starts chanting. Clary refuses to let Jace go through with his suicidal plan. She calls for Sebastian. He puts an iratze on Jace’s chest to heal the rune. Jace tells Clary that the other him came up with the plan. he’d rather be dead than be that person. Sebastian is willing to trust Clary now. Raziel appears to Simon and is not happy to be summoned. The angel sees the Mark of Cain. He agrees to help Simon if he is willing to give it up. Simon agrees. Raziel gives him Gabriel’s sword, Glorious.

Clary Frantically searches Jace’s room for a stele. Sebastian gives her a red dress and tells her she has an hour until the ceremony. Clary says she is going to get ready, but instead, she sneaks into Sebastian’s room and finds her fairy ring. Simon hears Clary in his head. They fill each other in on what has been going on. Clary breaks off and Simon fill in the others. Sebastian catches Clary in his room with the ring. He explains that the Seelie Queen has been listening in on her conversations and he uses it to communicate with her. Clary smashes the ring before he can learn about the sword. She punches him, grabs his stele and runs. Knowing they will need reinforcements, Magnus splits up the group to get help. They get ready to portal, but first Isabelle grabs the sword and gives it to Simon. Clary runs to the kitchen where Jace told her the house is controlled and draws a rune. Sebastian catches up to her and they start fighting. It doesn’t take long before he has her pinned to the ground. He tells her that they belong together and seems to be jealous of Jace. Clary starts stabbing and slashing him with glass shards.

Clary can’t kill him and he knows it. She gives up and he tells her to get cleaned up and ready for the ceremony or she will not like what he does to her. Jordan gets a call from the Praetor. His roommate, Nick, was killed, most likely by Maureen. Maia then gets a 911 call from Luke calling the pack to battle. Sebastian retrieves Clary from the bathroom, now dressed in her mom’s ceremony dress. He walks behind her with a crossbow as they leave the house. Isabelle and Alec arrive at the Institute and find Maryse talking to Aline and her girlfriend, Helen. They tell them everything and Maryse says she has to tell the Clave or they could loose everything. The siblings decide they will have to do it on their own. Sebastian takes Clary out of the house and then it is destroyed by the rune she created. He takes her to the tomb where everyone is gathered on a plain. Jace speaks to them about taking over the world. He lets Sebastian take over, who calls Lilith. They mix blood in the Infernal cup and Cartwright brings Amatis up to drink first.

Sebastian and Cartwright force Amatis to drink from the cup. She is instantly different and Sebastian has her demonstrate her new power. They other Shadowhunters are ready to drink. As they turn their alliance to demonic, Clary’s family and friends arrive. They know they need to get Simon to Sebastian. Isabelle and Magnus move with him. AMatis attacks and stabs Magnus, who falls. Simon tires to help, but is carried forward by the battle. Jace holds Clary back while she tries to free herself to join the fight. Sebastian tries to get her to drink from the cup while Jace argues that it is too soon. She gets free and runs into battle. Maia and Joran fight together as a team. Simon makes his way toward Clary through a path Alec clears for him. Jace is chasing Clary, but she gets to Simon first. He gives her the sword. While Jocelyn looks for Clary, a younger Circle member approaches her, explaining that they are no longer Nephilum. Maryse kills him and goes back to the battle. Jace blocks Clary’s way to Sebastian knowing it isn’t her Jace, she stabs him in the chest and he erupts into flames. Alec rushes down to Magnus and lends the warlock his strength to heal himself. Jace crumples to the ground and Clary crawls to him. Her mom and Simon try to get her away from Jace’s body, but she waits for a sign that he is still alive. His hear is beating.

Isabelle gives Clary the idea of going to see Jace even though the Silent Brothers keep saying no visitors. Alec goes to see Camille, but finds Magnus instead. Camille told the warlock about her deal with Alec. Magnus breaks up with him. Alec challenges Camille, but Maureen appears, explaining that she killed Camille and now leads the New York clan. Clary convinces Brother Zachariah to let her see Jace. She apologizes to Jace and he tells her everything he remembers. He also tells her that Gabriel's’ sword left heavenly fire in him. The Silent Brothers are going to help him control it, but in the meantime, touch will be difficult. Maryse shows the Silent Brothers the angel wings Sebastian left on the Library floor.

Simon Meets Isabelle at a restaurant for a date. As they start talking, she points out two men that are a vampire’s human subjugates. They introduce themselves as Archer and Walker and tell Simon their master, the leader of the Manhattan Vampire Tribe, has requested to meet with him. He eventually agrees to go, figuring Raphael won’t leave him alone until he does. However, when they arrive (sans Isabelle), he meets Camille. She explains that Raphael usurped her position by framing her fro murder. She wants Simon to go to the Hotel Dumort with her to win back some of the tribe, she offers teach him how to do normal things in return and gives him five days to decide. When Simon gets home, his newly overprotective mother is asleep on the couch. He puts a blanket over her before going to his room to call Clary, remembering he can’t tell her about Camille’s offer.

Clary is alone in the raining room when Simon calls. he tells him that he needs to pick a girl (between Isabelle and Maia) before Jocelyn and Luke’s wedding. Jace comes back and their training becomes less educational. Isabelle comes in and mentions that Maryse in investigating a Shadowhunter that was murdered in Brooklyn. Jace quickly passes over the subject because he doesn’t want Clary to worry. Isabelle tells them she isn’t really interested in anything serious with Simon because he is too boring. Jace walks Clary out and she doesn’t want to leave. He is worried that Jocelyn thinks he will be just like Valentine. He gets oddly emotional before he takes the elevator back up.

While Simon and his friends discuss the pros and cons of having a vampire in their band, a guy named Kyle comes to audition for lead singer. On his way home, Simon is attacked by a man with a knife. Before the blade can pierce his heart, the man is ripped open and turned into salt. When he gets home, his mom has found his bottles of blood. he tries to tell her he is a vampire, but she freaks out. He convinces her with some sort of compulsion that she is dreaming. He packs a bag to leave. With Alec off with Magnus, the Institute has been quite. Jace sits in his room going through Stephen Herondale’s (his biological father’s) things that Amatis gave him. Clary comes over, telling him she snuck out. They start making out and he stabs her with a knife. He has been having this nightmare for weeks and it makes him sick every time. Jace thinks about Valentine and his adoptive brother, Sebastian/Jonathan. He doesn’t want to be like them, but wonders if it is possible to escape Valentine’s influence.

Simon calls Raphael and they meet. He asks his sire about him telling his mom it was all a dream and her believing it. Raphael explains that as vampires, their powers include persuasion. Simon asks if he can stay at the Dumort, but Raphael tells him he can’t stay there until he starts living like a vampire. Jace and Clary go to the park. He falls asleep and wakes up from another nightmare. He says they need to start training and go to a hidden area. The Seelie queen appears to tell them they found a dead Shadowhunter in the park. Jace goes off to call Maryse. The queen questions whether Jace and Clary really love each other, or if they are drawn together because they share the blood of the same angel. When Jace returns, the fairy is gone. Simon plans to stay with Eric, his bandmate, for a few days while he figures out what to do. Kyle comes over to find his keys and offers him a place at his apartment. Simon accepts.

When Simon wakes up in the morning in his new room, Kyle is up cooking breakfast. They have a brief conversation where Kyle doesn’t seem to approve of Simon dating two girls. They go their separate ways. SImon goes to a dress shop with Clary to make sure her dress fits for her mom’s wedding. Maia meets them there to hang out with Simon and asks Luke questions about the party the pack is throwing him. Jocelyn and Clary disappear to see the bride’s dress and Maia leaves. Jace walks in looking for Clary. When she comes out, he acts strangely cold towards her, asking for his jacket and then leaving. Luke, Jocelyn, Clary, and Simon go out to dinner, but it is short lived when the news reports a woman leaving her baby at the hospital with a note asking them to euthanize it. Simon walks home alone and is attacked by two men dressed the exact same as the mugger that attacked him before. Jace lands on one and the other explodes into salt when he tries to shoot Simon. The other disappears and the two boys are left wondering who sent them.

Clary goes to see Jace at the Institute, but he isn’t there. As she waits for the elevator, she realizes that someone is on their way up. Luke appears and Maryse comes along to greet him. They talk about how three Shadowhunters have been found dead in different Downworlder’s territories. Two have been identified as former Circle members. Luke thinks it is a thinly veiled attempt at breaking up the new Accords. Clary sees a rune when Maryse mentions the dead talking. Back in Simon’s new apartment, he notices that Jace looks sick. He takes him to a grocery store to get food. On the way, Jace explains that he was following Clary because he has her phone. He wanted to leave it somewhere she could find it. Simon wonders why he doesn’t just give it to her. While Simon goes to grab soup, Jace is given a girl’s phone number. Simon realizes it happens to him whenever he goes out without glamouring himself. Clary, Luke, and Maryse meet Brother Zachariah in the Bone City. He takes them to the latest Shadowhunter’s body. Clary uses her stele to put the rune on his arm and he seems to wake up. He can feel the pain that was inflicted on him. Maryse starts asking questions and he tells them Camille killed him. Luke uses acid to burn off the rune and let the body rest. He and Clary leave disgusted. Jace and Simon try to figure out who is trying to kill him. Simon tells him about his meeting with Camille, but Jace rules her out because she knows about the mark. Simon goes to get his last bottle of blood and starts drinking it. Kyle comes home and Jace instantly recognizes that he is a werewolf. Luke and Clary ride home in silence. When they do talk, Luke explains that Clary needs to learn more about runes and try to master her powers. She points out that Maryse was supposed to hire someone to help her, but is distracted by Max’s death.

Kyle explains that he is a member of the Praetor Lupus, a pack of werewolves that help out abandoned and newly made Downworlders before they hurt themselves or others. Kyle was assigned to Simon. Jace and Simon fill him in on the attacks, but leave out any mention of the Mark of Cain. When Simon goes to bed, Jace follows, vowing to be his bodyguard. Simon wonders why Jace is going through so much to avoid Clary. Luke calls Simon in the morning, asking to meet alone. Jace is still asleep. When the house phone rings, Clary listens in on her mother’s conversation. Jocelyn plans to go see the baby that was left at the hospital, which died the previous night. She wants to make sure there isn’t someone out there recreating Valentine’s experiments on babies. Clary demands to go with her. Simon sneaks out and meets up with Luke. The werewolf asks him about Camille, explaining she might be involved in the Shadowhunters’ murders. Simon explains his meeting with her. THe next day, she will require an answer, and they will need to find a way to find her to question her. Simon returns to the apartment and tells Kyle and Jace about his early morning meeting. They decide to focus on whoever is trying to kill Simon. THey agree to lure them out after the band performs that night. Kyle is hesitant because he doesn’t know about the mark. Simon questions Jace’s motives for avoiding Clary. Jace isn’t specific in his answer, but seems to want to protect her.

Jocelyn and Clary meet a warlock, Catarina, at the hospital. She takes them to the morgue and opens the drawer with the dead baby. Jocelyn comments that its eyes are just like her son’s when he was a baby. Clary notice’s it has claws for hands. Jocelyn is upset and leaves. Catarina asks Clary to tell Magnus that she showed them what they wanted to see. She also gives her a scrap of fabric the baby was wrapped in. When Clary takes it, she sees a rune. Simon and Jace wait behind stage while Kyle and the rest of the band sets up. Luke and Maryse meet with Raphael’s projection in the Institute’s library. They tell him about one of the dead Shadowhunters, mentioning Camille’s involvement. Raphael tells them he discovered her killing people and told her to leave the tribe. He said she was taking a leave of absence to keep anyone, especially the Clave, from getting suspicious and punishing the whole clan. They ask for his help in capturing Camille to question her, but don’t give him much of a choice in how to answer. Clary arrives at Simon’s gig and finds Isabelle to sit with. She sees Jace hanging around backstage and goes to talk to him. He is surprised to see her since Simon said she couldn’t make it. She tells him to just get the breaking up over with when she realizes he has been avoiding her. He says he isn’t breaking up with her, but can’t talk to her or even look at her. Clary runs outside. Simon starts getting dizzy on stage. He leaves his guitar behind and goes behind the curtain. THe band’s only fan, Maureen, greets him, asking for a picture. He agrees, but ends up biting her.

Jace catches up with Clary and drags her back to the alley behind the bar. He tells her he is watching over Simon so that she’ll forgive him, but she doesn’t know what he did wrong. She tries to get him to tell her what is going on, but he says he can’t live without her and starts kissing her instead. Isabelle finds them while looking for Simon. Jace runs off. Kyle stops Simon from killing Maureen, but when he pulls the vampire back, he is thrown across the room. Kyle tells Simon to wait outside while he takes care of the near dead girl. A lady who claims to be a band promoter gives Simon her card before wandering off. He goes to meet up with his bandmates and sees Isabelle waiting for him. Maia shows up and he is left to explain to both of them what is going on. Kyle comes out and once Maia sees him, she attacks him.

Simon watches as Isabelle pulls Maia off of Kyle, and hold her down until the rage subsides and she starts crying. The Shadowhunter tells both boys to leave. Simon drives them back to the apartment. He starts to pack is bags to leave, but realizes after his own experience with lacking self control, that Kyle had the same issue when he turned. Jordan Kyle admits to all of Maia’s accusations. He joined the Wolf Guard to make up for what he’d done. Simon explains how Maia ended up in Luke’s pack. Clary takes the piece of cloth Catarina gave her and draws the rune she saw on it. The words “Church of Talto” appear on it. Her internet search doesn’t return any results. Clary starts thinking of who can help her. she sends a text with an address and then heads off. Jordan explains that he used to get into fights and was bitten by some guy. A few weeks later, he was irritable and hit Maia. THe night he saw her kiss another guy was his first full moon. The Praetor Lupus found him and explained that he had to join and help others or face punishment. They wouldn’t let him see Maia. The doorbell rings and they find a note threatening someone’s girlfriend at the address Clary is headed to. They call Maia, Isabelle, and then Clary and all seem to be fine. Jordan wants to go watch over Maia. Jace arrives. Clary wanders into the church alone. She finds an atheme on the alter. THere are a series of pictures showing women being injected with demon blood while pregnant. THeir babies are born and they are horrified. Clary goes to leave, but is surrounded by men in grey track suits (like the people that attacked Simon) and a three headed demon between her and the exit.

Clary’s training kicks in and she avoids the demon. She grabs the atheme, but it doesn’t do much damage. She use her stele to draw a rune on it before throwing it at the middle head, which dies. The demon continues after her and beats her to the door. Isabelle shows up and removes the last 2 heads with her whip. Simon goes to meet with Camille under the pretense of joining her. His phone goes off and he disobeys a direct order from her not to answer. He is able to take and send a few pictures before Camille demands he signs a blood oath declaring his loyalty to her. As Simon approaches her, nervous that he will have to follow through, a portal appears and Shadowhunters pour through. Back at the Institute, Isabelle helps heal Clary’s wounds. They talk about Simon being with the Conclave to sort out some vampire politics and how Jace has been acting strangely. Maryse and Jace kill Walker and Archer (it is illegal to have human servants) before Maryse declares the arrest for the murder of Shadowhunters. They take Camille through the portal to be kept in the Sanctuary for questioning. She refuses to talk to anyone except Magnus Bane.

Jace explains to Simon that the Sanctuary was used back before vampires could project their images. Isabelle comes along and they let her know what is going on. She tells them about helping Clary kill a hydra demon. Once Jace learns that his girlfriend is there, he runs off. Isabelle agrees to talk to Simon. She explains that her mom told her about her dad’s affair with another woman and that is why she dates guys who are not willing to commit. Simon explains that heartbreak can make you stronger. When Isabelle learns that Simon broke off his relationship with Clary, she tenses and leaves. Clary wakes up to find Jace by the bed. He kisses her, but she pushes him away. She tells him that he has to talk to her about what is wrong. He explains that the events of Idris are catching up to him. They start making out and he cuts her arm with a knife. She pushes him away and he sinks to the floor. Camille points out that Simon will always be looked down on my the Shadowhunters. They make the vampires repress their predatory nature. Maryse leads Magnus and Alec in. It is obvious that Magnus and Camille know each other; he explains they used to date. Simon can hear Alec and Magnus argue over the warlocks past partners. Eventually Alec leaves and Magnus points out that they will be the only ones left in a hundred years. Simon is overwhelmed by the thought, and leaves as Magnus agrees to talk to Camille for the Conclave. Jace explains to Clary that he has been killing her in his dreams and thinks something is wrong with him. Clary points out that it might be something someone is doing to him. THey decide to go to the Silent City right away. Camille tries to lure Magnus back to her, but he is unwilling. She promises to share information if they grant her immunity. She admits she killed the Circle members under orders from someone much more powerful than herself. Magnus goes to talk to Maryse. The Silent Brothers make a painful intrusion into Jace’s mind. They find out about him dying and the angel, Raziel, bringing him back to life. They say that it is like he is reborn and must undergo the rituals again to be protected. He agrees to stay alone in the Silent City until they can “cure” him. Simon wakes up and Jordan shows him the newspaper that was shoved under their door. Maureen is dead from her throat being cut open. Jordan reminds him that they received a ransom note threatening his girlfriend.

The only place for Jace to sleep in the Silent City is the jail cells. He drifts off to sleep and dreams. Max appears saying the angels sent him with instructions on how to cleanse Jace’s soul from Valentine’s influence. Jace cuts his arms with the dagger from Stephen Herondale. Max collects the blood and draws a symbol on Jace’s chest. Jace collapses in agony. Simon feels responsible for what happened to Maureen. Jordan convinces him to call Jace for help, but Isabelle is the one that answers the phone. Simon tells her what happened. she tells them about the Church of Talto being in the same location. They all plan to meet at Luke’s pack’s party to discuss what to do next. A fairy appears to Clary while she is waiting for the party to start. She gives Clary a bell that she can use to summon someone from the queen’s court. CLary is hesitant, but accepts is. Her mom comes over to check on her because she appeared to be by herself. They talk about Jace before Jocelyn goes back to Luke. Simon and Jordan arrive at the party. Isabelle is waiting for them outside and tells them both to stay away from Maia.

Simon and Jordan join Clary, Alec, and Magnus at their table. Alec still can’t seem to drop not knowing about his boyfriends past and it leads into a verbal fight between them. Alec stalks off. Clary leaves thinking she saw Jace come into the party. Simon follows and Clary tells him most of what has been going on before continuing her search. Maia approaches Simon. She’s mostly forgiven him and he tells her Jordan’s story before going to get some air. Clary finds Jace outside. He claims that the ritual was simpler than the Silent Brothers thought. He questions who he is and whether she would still love him if he was permanently damaged by Valentine’s influence. He asks her to bind them together with a rune and Clary agrees.Jace marks her, but the rune he draws has a much darker meaning. He catches her as she collapses. Magnus tries to talk to Alec, who finally tells Magnus what is wrong. He heard Camille say that Alec looked like Will, a Shadowhunter from Magnus’ past. Magnus tries to explain that his feelings for Alec are unique. Isabelle comes along to tell Magnus that Camille escaped. He needs to help the clave find her so they don’t suspect he had helped her. Maureen comes to Simon as a vampire. She explains that the people who kidnapped her gave her the choice of dying or becoming undead. She tells him they want him because he is a Daylighter. If he doesn’t go, they will continue to hurt people he loves.

Maureen takes Simon to a building that is being constructed. They break in and take the elevator up. Isabelle realizes that Simon is missing. She starts asking around and she, Jordan, Alec, and Maia all look for him. THey decide he isn’t there and to widen their search. Maureen leaves Simon alone on the roof with the woman who claimed to want to promote his band. She tells him that she is the first demon, Lilith. She says that she needs his blood and reveals a glass coffin surrounded by a circle of runes. Sebastian is inside of it suspended in some sort of liquid. The search party goes through the apartment for clues. Jordan and Maia get distracted by their feelings, but end up finding Simon’s wallet. Isabelle finds the band promoter’s business card and gives it to Alec. He explains that the woman’s name is one of the 17 names of Lilith. She was Adam’s first wife and left him and the garden of Eden because she didn’t want to be obedient. God cursed her so that she couldn’t have children, so she created demons in a place called Edom. They decide to go to the address on the card. Lilith wants Simon to turn Sebastian into a vampire so she can start a new race. Simon points out that he cannot revive the dead. Lilith says that since Jace was brought back to life, the dark side is also allotted a life. Simon refuses and starts to walk away until Lilith points out Jace holding a knife to Clary’s throat.

Clary wakes up in Jace’s arms. When she remembers what happened, she tries to get away. She rips Jace’s shirt in the process and sees the red mark on his chest. She realizes that he is under someone’s control and can’t leave him behind. He takes her to the roof. She realizes that Lilith is the greater demon that gave her blood to Valentine to make Sebastian what he became. Lilith demonstrates her complete control over Jace by having him slightly cut Clary. She was the one messing with his head because she needed him present to complete the ritual. When they arrive at the address, Isabelle’s ruby pendant alerts her to demons. They take the elevator to the tenth floor and the ruby goes crazy. They quietly search the floor and find something disturbing. After Lilith explains that Clary had Raziel bring Jace back when he died, Simon agrees to do what Lilith asks to save Clary. Isabelle Looks at one of the many dead babies they have found in a room. she looks at its hands and sees claws, like Clary had described. Isabelle sees something move in the shadows and attacks it. A woman in a grey track suit explains that Lilith saved them. Their babies were too weak to survive her blood and so is the woman. Isabelle goes to the elevator to continue her search for Simon, but when it opens, a mob of track-suited cult members comes after them.

Clary watches as Simon drinks Sebastian’s blood. She tells Jace that she can’t watch and asks to face him. He allows her and she start talking to him, promising a way to save her and obey Lilith. Clary takes advantage of his distracted reaction to her. She grabs the knife from his belt and cuts at Lilith’s mark on his chest. She throws the knife down and tells him to kill one of them. Simon retches up Sebastian’s blood. Alec, Isabelle, Jordan, and Maia fight off the cult members. Alec feels bad for killing the almost-human creatures. One flees and he chases it through a maze of hallways. He ends up finding Camille instead. Jace throws the knife at Lilith and challenges her. She refuses his terms of a fair fight and summons two hell hounds. One goes after him, the other after Clary. Camille tells Alec that she agreed to kill the Shadowhunters because she knew Lilith would kill her if she refused. The mother of demons needed the blood to attempt creating more babies like Sebastian. When Alec refuses to free her, she offers him a way of becoming immortal without becoming a vampire. Alec cuts her free and turns around to see Isabelle, but Camille is already gone. Clary uses the chain holding the Morganstern ring to fend off one of the hellhounds. Jace comes to finish it off after killing the other. He tells her to get out of there. Simon is too sick to focus on what has been going on. He blindly listens to whatever Lilith tells him until Jace starts to fight her. He honestly believes that Clary left, but Lilith pulls her out of hiding. She goes to land the killing blow, but Simon jumps in the way. Her attack is returned to her sevenfold and she turns to salt.

Jace has Simon carry Clary as neither of them have a stele to heal themselves. As they get ready to leave, Alec and Isabelle make it to the roof. They exchange tales of what happened. Isabelle wants to cut Sebastian up, but Simon points out that he is connected to Jace through Lilith’s uncompleted ritual. Alec sends a message to the Clave and Jace agrees to watch over the rooftop scene. Alec pushes Clary out of the elevator to wait with Jace. Maia and Jordan don’t know what happened to Alec and Isabelle. There is a flash of light and Maia grabs him. She kisses him, but can’t explain when he asks why. Clary approaches Jace, angry about how he hasn’t stopped to think about how she has been dealing with his behavior. She explains that none of the night’s events were his fault. They kiss before she goes down to the lobby to find her mom. Simon is surprised that Isabelle came looking for him. They don’t get to talk much before the Clave and Magnus arrive. He watches the warlock and Alec make up. Jocelyn and Luke come running in just before Clary comes out of the elevator. Simon talks to Luke about biting someone. Luke points out that the more he represses his nature, the more it will control him. Simon decides to go home. Simone’s bite woke Sebastian. He controls Jace through Lilith’s healed mark. He finishes binding through blood and the ritual. When it is done, Jace feels at peace.

After Clary met with Madeleine, she runs to tell Jace the good news. However, he doesn’t like the idea of her going to Idris. Maryse overhears the conversation and offers to take Clary with them since they are going for an official Clave meeting. Jace is furious, but Clary refuses to not go considering the warlock, Ragnor Fell, is expecting her and will most likely refuse anyone else. Clary is in the process of packing when Simon stops by before heading off to meet Maia. Luke brings Clary a green coat that will help her fit in with the Shadowhunters. He is not happy that she is going to Alicante without him. Simon arrives at the Institute because Jace asked him to talk. The Shadowhunter asks him if he will tell the others that Clary changed her mind about going. He has already told Clary the wrong time to show up to go through the temporary portal Magnus is creating. Forsaken arrive and attack the others. Jace flings himself into the fist and so does Simon when he sees Isabelle attacked. They all go through the portal to get away, including Simon, who is dragged by Jace.

Luke takes Clary to the Institute. She goes ahead of him to find the building completely shut down. Magnus finds her and explains what happened earlier, including Madeleine’s death. Clary wants him to reopen the portal for her, but the warlock explains that there are wards around the city; they would have to know that she is coming for it to work. Clary is upset and storms off. She finds the spot where Magnus’ portal was and draws a rune to create her own. She thinks of the ballroom in Alicante she dreamed about just as Luke finds her. She goes through and pulls him through when he tries to stop her. Simon wakes up in a strange bedroom with Isabelle sleeping in a chair next to his bed. She wakes up and reminds him what happened back in the Institute’s garden. Jace comes in and tells him they had to explain to the Clave why they brought a vampire to Alicante. Simon realizes that he has lost blood from the stab wound and needs to replenish it. Jace sends Isabelle out before giving Simon juice he squeezed out of raw meat. Simon is not happy to be there and’t wouldn’t be if Jace had not wanted to keep Clary from coming. Jace points out that he has broken the law to save Simon on multiple occasions, this being one of them. Isabelle interrupts to let Jace know that Alec is going up to the Gard and wants to talk to his paraboti about Simon before he leaves. Simon insists on being there if they are going to talk about him. Clary and Luke are spit out of the portal and into Lake Lyn. Luke drags her out and tries to make sure she spits out any water she might have ingested. He is furious at her tantrum about being left behind. They start the long walk towards Alicante. On the way, Luke tells her that the Angel Raziel came out of Lake Lyn to give the Shadowhunter the Moral Instruments. The lake has been cursed since and the water is poisonous to Shadowhunters. As Simon sits with Jace, Isabelle, Alec, Aline and Sebastian, they tell him about the third Mortal Instrument, the mirror, which no one has seen for hundreds of years. Isabelle also explains how the Bone City isn’t actually in New York, that is just were one of the many entrances is located. Aline changes the subject away from Shadowhunter secrets and onto Simon. When the focus shifts again, Sebastian explains his parents were killed by demons. Aline had been looking forward to meeting Clary, and Jace says she didn’t want to leave New York. Simon is about to tell the truth when Jace pulls him out of the room forcefully.

Luke leads Clary through Idris towards Alicante. When they get to a cemetery, they start going through and Clary sees the Fairchild mausoleum. Her mother’s name is on it. clary turns to see her own grave and screams. When she looks again, it is gone. Luke says they must hurry because the hallucinations from the lake water have set in. Jace scolds Simon for almost telling the others that Clary wanted to come. Simon agrees to lie to them if Jace is willing to convince Clary he doesn’t have feelings for her. Jace explains that he already has. Simon asks what Valentine said after Clary drew the rune on the ship. Jace explains that Clary signifies a change in the Shadowhunter race, a war between two sides that will result in a new world for the winner. Luke sneaks Clary into the city through the woods. She starts hallucinating that he is in his wolf form and starts screaming. He gets her to Amatis’ house, who tries to turn him away. He explains that Jocelyn’s daughter is dying. She allows Luke to bring clary inside. Simon is left out of the conversations between Shadowhunters. Jace’s flirtations with Aline makes Simon uncomfortable. Alec returns to get Simon because the Clave has decided to send him home. Jace seems suspicious and tells Alec to make sure that happens.

On the way to the Gard, Simon tries to connect with Alec with the one thing they have in common: unrequited love. When they arrive, Consul Malachi is not at all pleased with the situation. Inquisitor Aldertree sends Alec away, promising that Magnus Bane is waiting to receive Simon in New York. The young Shadowhunter is suspicious. The Inquisitor takes Simon while Consul Malachi shows Alec out. Luke and Amatis take care of Clary. When she wakes up, she drinks some sort of medicine that Luke gives her. He introduces her to his sister, Amatis Herondale. Inquisitor Aldertree asks Simon how he became a vampire. Simon tells him the story, but leaves out the parts that might get his Shadowhunter friends in trouble. The Inquisitor claims that he is lying and has the vampire thrown in a cell. The man in the next cell over explains it took them a long time to fix the cell to hold a Jewish vampire. Jace is waiting for Alec when he returns. Alec tells him that he left Simon with the Inquisitor. Jace is furious and points out the Clave’s mistakes. After he goes inside, Alec writes a letter and sets it on fire with a rune.

Amatis brings clary food and tells her about her experience with Valentine and the Circle. Clary asks about Luke. Amatis says that he went to see his old wolf pack and would be back in a few days. Clary wants to go see Jace and find Ragnor Fell. Amatis tells her that she needs to lay low because she and Luke broke the law by coming there. Clary agrees and Amatis leaves her to rest. She goes through some old clothes until she finds old Shadowhunter gear. Clary puts it on and climbs out the window. The Inquisitor has Simon brought out of his cell to make him a deal. he wants the vampire to confirm a story saying the Lightwoods have been in league with Valentine. Simon refuses and is sent back to his cell. After getting herself lost in the city, Clary asks for directions, which doesn’t seem suspicious because Shadowhunters are visiting from all over the world. When she knocks on the Penhallow’s door, Isabelle answers. Simon has a conversation with his cell neighbor, Samuel. The man says he knows about him, the Daylighter, from the guards gossiping. He tells his story and explains that he is more afraid of Valentine than the Clave. Isabelle tries to convince Clary to go home, but she refuses. She gets past Isabelle, who yells for Sebastian to stop her. He does, but Isabelle eventually decides to let Clary do what she wants. Upstairs, Clary finds Jace in a passionate embrace with Aline.

Jace is furious with Clary for coming to Idris. He sends Aline out of the room and Alec comes in trying to tell Jace something important. Jace tells Clary that he didn’t want her in Idris because there is a war coming and she will mess everything up. She leaves, telling him he is just like Valentine. Simon explains the Inquisitor’s proposition to Samuel, who admits he’d take it to save his own skin. He also points out that they might kill him anyway. simon tells him that his loyalty to the Lightwoods is really because of Clary. Alec is finally able to tell Jace that Magnus never received Simon. He overheard the guards talking about the vampire brought by Valentine’s son. Jace is furious again and punches a hole in a large picture window. Clary runs out of the house and starts wandering the streets of Alicante because she can’t remember how to get back to Amatis’ house. Sebastian catches up with her and offers to walk her home. He swears on the Angel that he won’t tell anyone where she is staying. Instead of using a healing rune, Alec bandages Jace’s hand. He asks why he lied to Clary about how he feels. Jace points out that Alec lies to himself about being in love with him to avoid a real relationship with Magnus. Jace asks Alec to tell the others that he is sick upstairs while he goes to free Simon. Clary and Sebastian talk about their families as he walks her home. His parents were killed when he was very young and was raised by his aunt. He wishes he had older siblings that could tell him about his parents, but he was an only child. When they reach Amatis’ house, they part and clary climbs back in through the window. Amatis is waiting for her. She tells Clary how badly she treated Luke when he though he might turn and is afraid she will disappoint him again. Alone in the guest room, Clary realizes that everyone is mad at her because of her selfish actions.

Jace goes to free Simon from his cell. However, Simon tells him what he knows about the Inquisitor’s plan to blame the Lightwoods. Simon asks Jace to bring him animal blood so that he doesn’t give in. Sebastian comes to tell Clary that he found Ragnor Fell. She agrees to go with him and they set out on horseback. When they arrive, Clary is disappointed to find Magnus instead. The warlock freezes Sebastian and tells Clary what is going on. Valentine found Ragnor, who left a note for the next warlock that found him dead. Magnus tells Clary that she needs the Whitebook, which her mother hid in the library of Wayland Manor. She’ll need Jace’s help to get past the wards. Magnus agrees to make the antidote in exchange for the book. Clary agrees. She tells Sebastian that they are leaving without help. He takes her to the charred remains of Fairchild manor. He kisses her and she doesn’t feel right about it. He wants her to admit they have a connection, but she can’t. She calms him down after an outburst and start riding back to Alicante. He tells her about Simon being in the jail in town.

Raphael’s projection appears in Simon’s cell. He tells Simon that he should either be with his kind or leave everything behind and stay hidden. Simon refuses to leave his family and Raphael points out that Simon still thinks he’s alive. Jace is there when Clary returns to Amatis’ house, she leaves them alone to talk. Clary is furious at him and attacks him until he stops her and explains the situation about Simon. Clary explains what she has learned and suggests Magnus might help them get Simon home for the Book of the White. He agrees to take her to Wayland manor to find it. Samuel explains to Simon that Valentine has found a way to get demon blood into the city to take down the wards. Clary creates a portal and she and Jace travel quickly to his old home. When they get to the library, Jace immediately finds the cookbook that hides the spell book they need. Jace points out Valentine’s journals about his son that he wasn’t allowed to read. They start knocking them off the shelves and a secret doorway appears in the wall.

Jace and Clary make their way downstairs into a cellar. They find an Angel, Ithriul, under a sheet and suddenly see visions. Valentine collected blood of a greater demon to give to his son before he is born, which will eventually burn out his humanity. He then summoned and trapped the angel, trying to get answers and taking his blood as well. Afterwards, Clary fixes the runes that bind the angel to let him go. Jace hands him his seraph blade and Ithriul kills himself. The house starts to collapse and Jace and Clary race out. They end up making out in the grass. Clary pushes him away. He admits that he is willing to be with her now because it is something someone part demon would do. Clary, who they suspect to be part angel, points out that she doesn’t have demon blood in her but she still wants him. They start making their way back to the city, but when they get close, they see that it is on fire.

Isabelle is worried about Jace being gone for so long. Aline suggests they go to bed after Max comes down saying he saw someone climb the demon towers that keep the wards for the city. Aline is snatched out of a window by a demon and dragged away. Isabelle runs after her and between the two of them they dispatch of the demon. Aline runs off and Isabelle goes after her again. She is stopped in shock when she sees the streets sees the street swarming with demons. Alec gets her in the house and tells her to wait there while he goes after Aline. Isabelle goes to get her stele to help Sebastian put protection runes on the house. When she gets back, Sebastian and Max are gone. Sebastian calls to her and she follows his voice to the kitchen. He hits her over the head with a hammer. Alec runs through the city searching for Aline. He gets up to a roof and starts running on top of the city. He sees Magnus fighting off Iblis demons and goes to help him. Alec wants to know why Magnus hasn’t called him back. Magnus explains that he loves Alec, but knows it won’t work between them because Alec loves Jace and only comes to Magnus when he needs something. More demons arrive and Alec promises if they live, he will introduce him to his entire family. Magnus agrees to the terms.

Jace wants Clary to wait outside of the city. A giant pack of werewolves goes running past them and he changes his mind. he gives her a seraph blade and they run to the open north gate. They start fighting off a demon and Maia comes along in wolf form to finish it off. They all make it to the Hall of Accords (which is still warded). Alec and Magnus come up to them. Luke arrives and Clary runs to greet him. Consul Malachi starts arguing with him about the werewolves coming into the city to help. Clary uses the opportunity to give Magnus the spell book. Sebastian finds them and drags her off to talk as the warlock, Jace, and Alec watch. He keeps trying to get her alone, and is upset she gave the book to Magnus. He tells her Simon is still in the prison. Jace and Alec come over and say they will take her to get her friend.

Simon is waiting for the fire to get him when Clary shows up. Jace knocks the bars from the window and they get him out. Simon tells them Samuel is also in the next cell. Jace pulls him out and they come to find it is actually Hodge. He explains hat he tried to warn the Clave of Valentine’s plan when he realized he could never be a Shadowhunter again (not even in Valentine’s regime). He tells them that the Mortal Glass is Lake Lyn. Jace asks how much Hodge knew about him, which was not much. Just as Hodge is about to tell them what Valentine will do with all three mortal instruments, Sebastian throws a knife and kills him. He tries to talk his way out of it, but no one believes him. They realize is is Valentine’s spy. Jace attacks, but is thrown aside. Clary and Alec are also no match for him. Simon attacks and Jace wakes up. They are able to fend him off, but he escapes. They return to the Hall to find Sebastian killed Max.

In the days after the battle, Clary and Simon stay with Amatis. Aline comes over to show them pictures of the real Sebastian that his aunt sent. She also apologizes for kissing Jace, she was trying to find out if she liked guys at all. Clary goes to the hall with Simon to tell Luke about Sebastian. Shortly after she does, Valentine’s projection appears in the hall. He tells them that if they don’t swear loyalty to him by the next night, he will bring his army and kill them all. Aldertree makes a scene. Valentine’s projection is able to rip his heart out and kill him.

Clary and Simon go to fill the Lightwoods in on what happened when they return from Max’s funeral. Isabelle is shut up in her room blaming herself and Simon goes to talk to her. Jace walks Clary back to Amatis’ house and notices blood on her sleeve. She says it is Sebastian’s and he takes a blood-soaked thread without her knowing. Isabelle was listening in on the earlier conversation but still feels that Max’s death is her fault. She wants revenge. For now, she is willing to settle for a distraction and grabs Simon. Clary is alone in bed when Jace comes into her room. He tells her that, even though it is wrong, he loves her and wants to spend what might be their last night together. They hold hands and sleep.

Jace goes to Luke to tell him that he has found Sebastian using a tracking rune. He is going to go after him in hopes it will lead him to Valentine. Luke questions whether Jace will be able to kill his father. Jace believes he can. He left notes for everyone else, but wants Luke to know immediately so he can keep it in mind while planning. Clary wakes up and finds a note from Jace explaining his plan and saying goodbye. She goes downstairs to find Amatis in the kitchen with Isabelle and Simon. clary asks to talk to Isabelle alone. She shows her the note. ISabelle expected it, but Clary wants to go after him. Isabelle starts explaining how tortured Jace has been his whole life, and how seeing Clary, the only person he’s ever been in love with, makes it worse. Simon, having heard most of the conversation, comes in to defend Clary. Shortly after, Amatis bring Jocelyn into the kitchen.

Clary is shocked to see her mother. Isabelle steps in front of Clary, demanding to know who Jocelyn is. Clary’s mom explains and Clary lets all of her anger finally come out. She runs past everyone and out of the house. Jace rides the Verlac horse out to the ruins of his old home. He uses the blood soaked thread and the stele he stole from Alec to get a visual idea of where Sebastian is. He takes off. Simon finds Clary sitting on top of a hill looking out over the city. THey discuss what has been going on the past few weeks. Clary pieces together what the angel, Ithuriel was trying to tell her. She races to the Hall of Accords and steps up on the dais to address the Shadowhunters that sent the Downworlders away and plan to agree to Valentine’s terms. She tells them exactly what happened on the ship in New York, but they don’t believe her. She creates a run on herself to make her appear as the person that each of them loves the most. They are all confused and seeing someone different. She tells them she also has a rune that could allow a Shadowhunter and a Downworlder to share their powers and knowledge.

While the Clave discusses what they want to do with the information Clary has brought to light, she waits outside. Jocelyn comes out to explain the full story. She fell in love with Valentine and they married young. Jocelyn found out she was pregnant and they were happy. Shortly after, Luke was lead to the werewolf bite by Valentine because Jocelyn told Luke she heard strange noises in the house at night. She was depressed after Valentine told her Luke killed himself. She started having awful dreams and getting sick. After Jonathan was born, Jocelyn could tell he was a monster. She heard crying coming from the cellar and followed it to find Valentine’s experiments. She learned that she was given demon blood to make their baby a better Shadowhunter (since the affects didn’t work on Valentine). Jocelyn received a letter from Ragnor Fell (family friend) informing her that Luke was still alive. She started acting normal and plotting. She knew Valentine was giving something to Celine Herondale during her pregnancy. She later learned that Celine killed herself (after her husband, Stephen, was killed in battle), and Valentine and Hodge saved the baby, who is now Jace. After Valentine faked the death of himself and Jonathan, he raised both boys separately. Jocelyn tried to keep Clary hidden from Valentine. Luke comes out of the hall to tell them the Clave has agreed to use Clary’s alliance rune.

Jace makes it to the house in the valley he tracked Jonathan to, but no one is there. He tries the tracking rune again, but only gets darkness. Valentine’s bird, Hugo, appears and Jace decides to try following it. Meanwhile, Clary shows everyone how to draw the rune they will be marking each other with. Jocelyn marks Luke first to show the Downworlders that it won’t hurt them. Clary sends Simon to tell the Lightwoods the truth about Jace. Still following Hugo, Jace ends up in a cave. When it splits into two tunnels, he hears voices down one and follows them. Alec searches the crowd for Magnus while Simon tells the Lightwood siblings about Jace. Alec leaves them, partners up with Magnus, and then kisses the warlock. Many people around them are shocked, including his parents. Simon is awkward around Isabelle and Maia. Raphael projects himself into the hall. He says the vampires will join the battle if they can have Simon. Jace comes to a man made cavern int he tunnels. Valentine and Jonathan are there. Simon overhears Luke, Jocelyn, and Clary all refuse to give up Simon to have the vampires fight with them. Jace listens in to Valentine’s plans. He is confused by fake-Sebastian’s name being Jonathan. Once Valentine leaves for the lake (leaving Sebastian to summon the demon army at midnight), he acknowledges Jace’s presence. Jace thinks they are brothers. As Clary makes her way through the crowd, Simon pulls her aside. He wants to give himself up to the vampires so that they will agree to fight with the others. After he explains his plan in full, Clary draws the first mark on his forehead with a stele.

Maia takes Simon out of the city and to the vampires. he tells her to leave so they don’t both die. She does. As Raphael gets ready to kill him, Simon shows him the Mark of Cain; anyone that tries to hurt Simon will suffer seven times worse. Raphael still agrees to fight with the Shadowhunters if Simon fights with them. Jace wakes up tied to a stalagmite with blood in his mouth. Sebastian releases the demons to attack the Clave early. He repeatedly points out how he is Valentine’s sone and hints that Jace is not. Jace tries to convince him that Hugo will inform Valentine if Jonathan kills him while he’s tied up. He lifts his sword and brings it down. Clary is sitting in the Hall of Accords when the demons are released. The skylight rains down on her as the demons pass. Simon and the other vampires are almost to the battle field when it happens. Jace wakes up outside in the valley. Sebastian comes at him with a sword, but Jace only has a small dagger. Jace is able to fight him off for a while, but ends up on his back. Sebastian is above him with his knife over Jace’s heart. He explains that Jace was never Valentine’s son. Jace feels the knife starting to go into his chest and can’t move. When Sebastian lifts the blade to finish Jace, Isabelle appears and cuts off Jonathan’s hand with her whip. He leaves Jace for dead and goes after something to stop the bleeding. Isabelle starts an iritze (healing rune) on Jace, but Sebastian comes back for her. Jace gets up and grabs the dagger. THinking of Clary gets him close enough to put the dagger into Jonathan’s back; into the spot that Valentine told him would pierce the heart and sever the spine. Jace collapses. Simon makes it to the battle. He doesn’t even start to fight before a Shadowhunter saves him, and then is swept away by a demon. Simon starts attacking a demon nearby. Clary decides to leave the hall and join Aline. She is almost out of the hall when Consul Malachi comes in for a private place to contact Valentine. He tells his leader about Jace going after him and fighting his real son. When clary gets over her shock, she hears them talking about turning Shadowhunters into forsaken. As Malachi starts to leave, Hugo points out Clary. Malachi stuns the bird before going after her. The bird saves Clary and kills Malachi on the glass from the shattered skylight. Clary races for the portal.

Clary lands in the lake again. Valentine pulls her out and cures her of the poisonous water before binding her to be the sacrifice for the ritual to call the angel. Just as Valentine is about to kill Clary with the Mortal Sword, Jace appears. He is ready to kill Valentine with Sebastian’s sword, but Valentine is faster. He drives the Mortal Sword into Jace’s chest and then holds him until he dies. He then goes to the lake and puts the blood soaked sword in it, chanting. He throws in the cup. Clary wants to go to Jace’s body, but instead she crawls over to the ritual runes Valentine has drawn. She changes the rune that means her father’s name just before the throws the sword into Lake Lyn. The angel rises and Valentine tries to explain the corruption of the Clave. Raziel explains that his judgement is different from heaven’s. Demons don’t have souls, but Downworlders do. Valentine points out that he preformed the ritual. The angel informs him that his daughter is the master of the circle that called him. Valentine is shocked, but before he can plead, the angel kills him. Raziel asks Clary what she wants, and tells her the battle with the demons is already ending. The demons start to leave when Valentine died. She says that she wants Jace. He tells her to close her eyes. When she opens them again, Jace is holding her. He knows that he died and that Clary could’ve had anything, but asked for him. She makes sure he knows they aren’t related.

Jace is released from the hospital after a few days of sleep to attend Valentine’s funeral. He goes away from the crowd and up the hill to watch him burn. Luke comes to tell him it is okay to miss and remember the man who originally raised him. Clary and Aline sit in Isabelle’s room while she decides what to wear to the celebration later that night. Aline wonders out loud if Jace will still want Clary now that their love isn’t forbidden. Isabelle describes how the night will be like a New York street fair that Max would’ve loved. Jace goes to see Clary, but she isn’t at Amatis’ house. She asks him in and gives him a box of his biological father’s possessions. He asks her about the scar on his shoulder that provoked Imogen to save him. She says it is a birthmark that all Herondale’s have. It is supposed to mean that the person was touch by an angel. Clary comes back to Amatis’ house to hear Luke and Jocelyn arguing about Luke staying in Idris to take the werewolves’ seat on the council. She tells him if he wants it, he should take it. He tells her that he loves her and then leaves. Amatis tells Jocelyn to let him go if she doesn’t love him. Clary doesn’t see what happens, but hears Amatis tell her mom to go after Luke. Jocelyn stops in the hallway when she sees Clary, who tells her to go after him. Jocelyn starts running. Amatis tells Clary that Jace came by to see her. Clary asks if she can borrow the dress she found in the spare room. She goes to the Lightwoods and meets up with Isabelle, who tells her that Jace is in the square. they are joined by Alec, Aline, Simon, and Maia and all start walking together. Simon tells Clary that he plans to try for as normal a life as he can. He promises her that when he chooses a girl, he won’t cut her out of his life. She admits she is planning to finish her education at the Institute and will be drawing the symbol for the new council. They arrive in the decorated town square. Clary sees Magnus talking to a girl that seems familiar, but she disappears. Shortly after, Magnus comes over to talk to them. He whispers to Clary to go to the Accords Hall steps. She finds Jace there with the silver box Amatis gave him. He’s wondering who he really is and if he even has a name. Clary points out that the Lightwoods are his family. Maryse gave him the nickname. She asks if he still wants her now that they have the opportunity to be together. He tells her how much he loves her, how she influences him, and how she makes him stronger. He asks if she wants him and she kisses him. Eventually they join their group of friends. From the edge of a small temporary forest, the Seelie Queen beckons to Clary. She goes and the queen asks her to recommend Meliorn for the fairy’s seat on the council. In return, the queen will grant Clary a favor. Clary turns down the offer, saying she has everything she needs and returns to her friends. Jocelyn and Luke find her and look happy together. Luke admits that he is staying in New York and is hoping Jocelyn and Clary will move in with him. They wander off and Clary watches the fireworks with Jace holding her against him.

About the Blogger

My name is Michelle, and I like to read... a lot. As I read a book, I take notes after each chapter. When I finish the book, I type out a summary and post it in this blog.It has taken me a while to find a process that really works. Some of my older summaries will be short and just summarize the overall plot.